Portreath Incline (Raised Lower Section Only)

The Portreath Incline, specifically the raised lower section, is part of a tramroad incline built in 1809. It represents the final descent of a tramroad that connected the Carn Brea mining area to Portreath Harbour. The incline features retaining walls made of coursed granite and uncoursed killas rubble, with granite dressings. It runs approximately 200 metres in a north-south direction and crosses a public road via a semicircular bridge. This bridge includes granite voussoirs, shallow battered buttresses, a simple band, and a parapet with brick coping. Near the bottom, where it crosses a stream, there is a smaller but similar bridge. The incline is one of the few remaining structures from the horse-drawn tramway that supplied mine engines with fuel before steam-powered locomotives were introduced, making it a notable feature in the landscape of Portreath.